The more I think about this book the better it gets. It starts rather abruptly with a prologue that shows three youngsters wandering around a wilderness to no real purpose. The real function of this prologue isn't clear until the epilogue... Then suddenly everyone has grown up and we're on a dif...
Just started re-reading this yesterday and am already gripped. It's truly unsettling in the most understated of ways. It reminds me a little of John Wyndham's work; it has a similar quality of matter-of-factness about it that somehow makes it all the more chilling.Pure literary gold...strangely put ...
I really loved this book, and it's hard for me to put into words why. A lot of it has to do with the atmosphere and the prose. But I also loved how the setting is almost a character itself and loved seeing how all the other characters related to it.It's interesting to see a story that focuses on how...
Completely bizarre...so just like Roadside Picnic, then...except, no, bizarre in a totally different way... I feel a bit dense because it took until near the end for me to figure out what the allegorical/satirical point behind it all was. Having done so, I'm surprised it got published at all in the ...
“You’re still alive, but you brought another work of Satan into this world.” Artefact looting in the Zone of inexplicability. The remains of an alien visitation have been found and everyone is on the make. This is not humanity’s finest hour. We follow looter Redrick Schuhart on several inadvisable t...
I read this one for a book club discussion. I didn't like it much.- Too full of pondering instead of being in the action, and as a result, the main character didn't appear so much like a "god who doesn't know whether he should intervene or not", than like a passive observer.- The political commentar...
Interesting look at a world where aliens visited, leaving some things behind which are effecting people around them, it focuses on one man, Red Schuhart who illegally delves into these spaces to find the treasures. These are stories about his life beside this event and how he lives with it and tries...
These days, my favorite genre books are the ones that don’t fit neatly into any genre. Most of the genre-benders I’ve read, however, blend their tropes together and smooth over any friction. Boris and Arkady Strugatsky’s The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn: One More Last Right for the Detective Genre does no...
I've read many Strugatsky's books, and so far liked only two - "Hard to be a god" and "Roadside Picnic".A little confusing beggining, but it's getting more interesting later. The book is well written, has understanding language and good plot - only one thing disappoited me - it could be something mo...
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